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Why We Should Rethink Saying "Crypto" We live in a world where "crypto" has become shorthand for digital currency , NFTs, blockchain technology, and decentralized finance. Walk into any coffee shop in Silicon Valley or scroll through financial Twitter, and you'll hear it dozens of times. But have you ever stopped to think about what that word actually means—and where it comes from? The prefix "crypto-" derives from the Greek word kryptos , meaning "hidden" or "secret." For centuries, this root has been used to describe things that are concealed, mysterious, or deliberately obscured. We see it in "cryptic" (puzzling and mysterious), "cryptography" (the art of secret codes), and "crypt" (a hidden burial chamber). But there's another, more troubling historical context that's worth considering: the term "crypto-Jewish." This phrase has been used for centuries to describe Jew...